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Medieval Manuscripts Reveal a 3,500-Year-Old Viral Secret Hidden in Parchment

Medieval parchment preserved two histories: the words written by scribes and the DNA of a sheep virus that had circulated for thousands of years. Animal skins used to make historic manuscripts have re...

2026-09-23

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Researchers find convenience, drinking water access and advertising drive global bottled water consumption

Over 1 million plastic water bottles are bought globally every minute. That translates into more than 1.3 billion every day and more than 500 billion every year. That's a lot of plastic, and much of i...

2026-09-23

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Why Viking museums still can’t escape the warrior myth

Scandinavian museums are trying to move beyond the familiar image of Vikings as sword-wielding male warriors, highlighting women, farmers, traders, and a far more complicated society. But the enduring...

2026-09-23

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Scientists Discover Canada’s First Dinosaur Tracks From a Rarely Documented Cretaceous Age

Rare tracks from northeastern British Columbia reveal an ornithopod-dominated dinosaur community from a poorly documented period when much of western North America lay beneath an inland sea. Imagine t...

2026-09-23

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Zika virus assembles without protein segment long deemed essential

For years, scientists were certain that two factors were involved in the assembly of active, highly infectious Zika viruses in human cells: a specific viral protein in its entirety and a turncoat huma...

2026-09-23

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Stonehenge’s 6-ton altar stone may have traveled from Scotland by glacier

Stonehenge’s six-ton Altar Stone may have been carried from Scotland to Dogger Bank by glaciers before prehistoric people transported it hundreds of kilometers to Salisbury Plain. The possible multist...

2026-09-23

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Pigeons' proposed inner-ear compass runs into a noise problem

A pigeon turning its head might seem an unlikely electricity generator. Yet one proposed explanation for the bird's magnetic sense depends on exactly that: Turning through Earth's magnetic field would...

2026-09-23

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Scientists say a critical Atlantic Ocean current is weakening and the effects could be global

Scientists have found strong observational evidence that a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has been weakening across a wide stretch of ocean for nearly two decades. The slo...

2026-09-23

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Typhoon Dujuan leaves seven dead in Japan from landslides, flooding

Typhoon Dujuan left seven people dead and five others missing Tuesday after the storm triggered landslides and flooding in the greater Tokyo area, Kyodo News reported, citing authorities.

2026-09-23

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UK to launch new military space squadron to protect satellites

Britain announced Wednesday that it will launch a new military space squadron to defend the country's satellites, the latest move as countries race to develop military space capabilities.

2026-09-23

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'Risk-free' matched betting? More than half of surveyed users report losses

A new peer-reviewed study from Bournemouth University has found a striking gap between how people perceive the risks of matched betting and what some experience in practice. Matched betting involves u...

2026-09-23

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Heat waves on land start earlier and develop faster, global analysis reveals

Heat waves over land worldwide are beginning earlier, ending later and occurring over longer seasons, while the first heat wave of the season has recently shifted toward faster onset, according to a n...

2026-09-23

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Snapshots reveal key molecular machine in tropical parasites at near-atomic resolution

A study conducted by the University of Liège and Rockefeller University reveals, with near-atomic precision, the three-dimensional structure and function of a gigantic molecular machine essential to t...

2026-09-23

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AI scans 4.6 million compounds in hours to predict hydrogen positions in drug-like molecules

New York University researchers have trained an AI model to learn chemical patterns associated with stability in drug-like molecules and accurately predict where their hydrogen atoms should be positio...

2026-09-23

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Tech elite's new school aims to replace universities

The most powerful venture capital firm in Silicon Valley is starting a two-year private school intended to replace college, as some members of the U.S. tech elite question the benefits of a traditiona...

2026-09-23

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Chile's Atacama Desert blossoms with life after El Niño rains

A display of flowers has bloomed across Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, after the El Niño climate phenomenon brought heavy rain to the region.

2026-09-23

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Agency says sea turtle eggs laid on California beaches are a first for the US West Coast

A reptile believed to be struggling in sand at a Southern California beach was simply making history: a sea turtle laying eggs on the U.S. West Coast.

2026-09-23

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Livestock grazing may boost soil carbon storage in Iceland's subarctic grasslands

Grassland plants transfer large amounts of carbon to soil through their roots, and most of that carbon is stored underground. Therefore, promoting soil carbon storage can help combat climate change. G...

2026-09-23

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Sensors and drones can help farmers improve crop quality while saving water

New research in Plants, People, Planet demonstrates how precision agriculture techniques involving drones and sensor-based irrigation can save water needed to produce tomatoes and grapes while also im...

2026-09-23

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Analysis finds socioeconomic and health factors drive most disability approval disparities

A study in Contemporary Economic Policy examined whether racial and ethnic differences in U.S. disability insurance approval rates reflect disparities in the determination process or broader differenc...

2026-09-23